Single-degree-freedom systems: undamped and damped    free vibration; Response to harmonic and periodic excitations; Response to    non-periodic excitations; Numerical evaluation of dynamic response;    Generalized single-degree-freedom systems. Elements of analytical dynamics:    The principle of virtual work; Principle of D Alembert; Hamiltons principle;    Lagrange’s equation.Multi-degree-freedom systems: Equation of motion;    undamped free vibration; Intepretation of modal orthogonality; Decomposition    of response in terms of modal co-ordinates; Modal analysis; Response to    external excitations; Rayleigh s quotient and its properties; Systems with    proportional damping; Systems with arbitrary viscous damping. Distributed    parameter systems: axial and bending vibration of beams; orthogonality of    modes; Response to external excitations; Rayleigh s quotient; Approximate    methods. Earthquake response of linear systems: Earthquake excitations;    Equations of motion; Response spectrum concept; Response spectrum    characteristics; Design response spectrum; Modal analysis; Displacement    response; Element forces; Modal response contribution; Response history    analysis; Response spectrum analysis. Introduction to Random Vibration;    Stationary and non-stationery random processes; Ergodic random processes.    Narrow band and wide band random processes; Properties of Autocorrelation and    Power spectral density functions; Response to arbitrary excitation by Fourier    transform method.
         
         
        Text/Reference Books:        
        
        - Paz M. Structural Dynamics, CBS Publisher.
 
        - Clough R. W. and Penzien J. Dynamics of Structures, McGraw-Hill.
 
        - Chopra A. K. Dynamics of Structures, Pearson. 
 
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